Story Railroading.

[ONIKS]

The fact that players are powerless against potential story dev abuse and can't do anything with the amount of damage that story devs can make is just depressing at this point, what's the point of roleplaying if your roleplay is being considered only when it's about sucking XA- off, and if you don't suck XA- off, you'll get removed from the game? I think the cracks started to visibly appear during that Gaia event when it was pretty clear that Reeves doesn't care. He has his position - he gonna utilize it.

All this talk about "we gonna implement this and we gonna implement that" doesn't carry anything closely related to credibility, you haven't done shit for years and months to introduce players to the actual story development. Auxesia roleplaying settling the planet? Ignored and blocked for years. Can't remember any more examples that I can use, but my points stand. Story development, at this point, is just a hindrance for factions and a nuisance for HCs of said factions. They are the same players, as everyone are, why it is expected that their 'roleplay' is much better than average Disco players 'roleplay', thus, it's them who should make the story? As the result, we get people with an absolutely disproportionate amount of ego compared to their ability to write stuff who are in charge of things who aggressively are trying to enforce their view of the game and its story on others. This is just stupid.

Markam, stop daydreaming about how things will be good and players will like your awesome and cool and fresh ideas - no one will. Instead, start doing shit and stop hesitating with kicking people who do bad decisions or don't do anything at all. People will respect you more if you stop being a spineless wimp, and start contributing to the health of the server and community.

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